He was a punk,she did ballet
What more can I say?

He wanted her, she'd never tell
secretly she wanted him as well.

But all of her friends stuck up there nose
they had a problem with his baggy clothes.


I chose skater boy by Avril Lavigne because of her use of rhymes in her lyrics with the 3rd and 4th lines as great examples.

Spring in New Hampshire
by Claude McKay
Too green the springing April grass, Too blue the silver-speckled sky, For me to linger here, alas, While happy winds go laughing by, Wasting the golden hours indoors, Washing windows and scrubbing floors. Too wonderful the April night, Too faintly sweet the first May flowers, The stars too gloriously bright, For me to spend the evening hours, When fields are fresh and streams are leaping, Wearied, exhausted, dully sleeping. I chose the poem by Claude Mckay because he mentioned spring cleaning with his line of "washing windows and scrubbing floors". This line really hit home for me since i get really into the spring cleaning mode and go off on my house.

From all of the poems by Pablo Neruda the one that stood out the most to me was "Ode to Clothes" because it was poem that I was able to relate to my everyday life with something as simple as what you wear.

A Late Walk

    WHEN I go up through the mowing field,
    The headless aftermath,
    Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew,
    Half closes the garden path.
    And when I come to the garden ground,
    The whir of sober birds
    Up from the tangle of withered weeds
    Is sadder than any words.
    A tree beside the wall stands bare,
    But a leaf that lingered brown,
    Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought,
    Comes softly rattling down.
    I end not far from my going forth
    By picking the faded blue
    Of the last remaining aster flower
    To carry again to you.

I chose "A Late Walk" because when I read the poem it actually made sense and I realized the field he is walking through is most likely a crop and it has just been cut down. Also the leaves are brown so it must be the end of autumn and the crop symbolizes years. A literary device that Robert Frost uses is in the third line "Smooth-laid like thatch with heavy dew" where he uses a simile to illustrate how the field lays.